Re:Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot
by tristor on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:05PM
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This implies humans are biased in favor of women.
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Re:Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot
by mort96 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @07:02PM
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It's pretty uncontroversial to say that society has a bias in favor of women when it comes to taking domestic abuse seriously.
Re:Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot
by iinnPP on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:01PM
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Men generally can't even report domestic abuse without subjecting themselves to a highly likely criminal charge against themselves. It's a serious issue for both genders and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, if ever.
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by matheusmoreira on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @08:10PM
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They are. Reddit even hosts communities whose entire purpose is documenting examples of such bias.
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by at_a_remove on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:08PM
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You should probably acquaint yourself with the Wikipedia article on the "Women Are Wonderful" Effect.
Re:Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot
by blindmute on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:51PM
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Yes, because they are (on this subreddit, at least)
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by 843959563 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @07:09PM
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The subreddit is definitely biased against men, but I don't know if it's representative of society at large. Reading the subreddit often feels jarring and alien to me but that may be because most of its users are American and the US has lots of social norms (especially regarding gender) that are nonsensical to me as someone who grew up in Scandinavia. On the other hand, I assume Reddit users are not very representative of the average American, and people who participate in a subreddit about judging social behavior are probably not representative of the average Reddit user.
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by kelnos on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @10:10PM
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> The subreddit is definitely biased against men, but I don't know if it's representative of society at large.
Perhaps not in general (I don't know either way), but in the specific case of domestic violence, there is absolutely a societal bias (US perspective, here) against men who accuse a woman of domestic violence. In many places it's even considered "funny" that a man was "hurt by a girl", to the point that a man would never even consider reporting something like this.
Unfortunately, it's of course not all roses on the other side: while people certainly believe in the abstract that women experience domestic violence, there's still often a lot of bias against specific women when they accuse a male partner of domestic violence. ("But he seems like such a nice guy, I could never believe he'd do something like that!", etc.)